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    ‘To Autumn’ Analysis ‘To Autumn’ is a caricature of the Autumnal season written by John Keats around 1820. Keat’s direct address‚ and thus his personification of Autumn is evident through the use of the direct determiner ‘To’ which resembles the conventional opening sequence of a letter. From the personification of Autumn‚ we can denote that ‘she’ is the intended audience‚ and that we are merely onlookers to Keat’s celebration. The purpose of the piece is to eulogize the season‚ exploring most

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    COMPARE AND CONTRAST “ODE TO THE WEST WIND” AND “ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE” “Ode to the West wind” and “Ode to a Nightingale” are two of the main representative poems of the second generation of the Romantic period. Even though Shelley and Keats literary works are both lyric poems they portray some similarities as well as differences. To begin with‚ both poems share a similar genre‚ form and theme. First‚ it can be mentioned that both are odes since they are short lyric poems that have a complicated

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    The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats depicts the images and stories on a Grecian urn. Keats has the reader think about the difference between changeable real life and the immortal and permanent life on the urn. Also‚ the reader becomes mixed between observation of the art and participation in the art. The first stanza depicts the urn as an "unravish’d bride" and a "foster child" (1-2). These words describe the urn as unaffected by time and immortal. Keats also seems unable to distinguish

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    "Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚

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    John Keats’ essay. The poems written by John Keats are primarily concerned with the conflicted nature of the human existence as they look at the human state often with sadness‚ beauty and the imagination of one’s mind. The metaphysical world‚ beauty in nature and classical idealism are all pondered upon in Keats’ poems as these ideas are evidently indicated in the two poemsOde on Melancholy” and “Ode To A Nightingale”. The metaphysical world relating to immortality and mortality constantly appears

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    The Ode to the Bitten Breast Whom can you find while searching a husband via Internet? How should a woman above 50 dress herself to make a peaceable dog bite her in breast? Author: Inna Petrova Issue: 15 Views: 2426 A funny and sad play with a good end entitled “Love.Dog.Dot.Ru”‚ performed in Smolensk by the actors of Israeli theatre “Matara”‚ was written by a practicing urologist‚ a famous writer-dramatist Leon Agulansky… We’ve talked to him after the performance. - Leon‚ you’ve mentioned

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    ODE ON A GRECIAN URN Odes – An Introduction The poem `Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is a poem written by John Keats in the form of an ode. In its original (Greek) form‚ an ode is an elaborately structured poem written in praise of an event or individual‚ with a perfect amalgamation of intellectual and emotional approaches. In the history of British poetry‚ the ode has retained its purpose (glorification)‚ but altered the structure. The Great Odes by Keats The ode being discussed is one of the `Great

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    Kalie Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect

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    in "Ode to the West Wind" "When composition begins‚ inspiration is already on the decline" - P. B. Shelley 	Shelley deals with the theme of inspiration in much of his work. However it is particularly apparent in ‘Ode to the West Wind ’ where the wind is the source of his creativity. The cycles of death and rebirth are examined in an historical context with reference to The Bible. The word inspiration has several connotations that Shelley uses in this ‘Ode ’. Inspiration

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    Q. Critical Appreciation of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. / Bring out the revolutionary zeal of Shelley in the poem Ode to the West Wind. / Critically analyse Shelley’s use of imagery in the poem Ode to the West Wind. A. Ode to the West Wind‚ the single most renowned and anthologized of Shelley’s poempresents him as the visionary idealist and romantic revolutionary who makes a fervent plea to the greatest of natural forces – the west wind – to disseminate his message of reform and change among

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